frogging

Pluralfroggings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Decorative looped braid fasteners applied to a garment, especially across the front of a military uniform.

   Like the braided toggle-and-loop clasps on a classic toy-soldier or nutcracker uniform.

   The ceremonial uniform was trimmed with ornate frogging down the front.

   Tailors added rows of silver frogging to the hussar's short jacket.

   Similarbraid, braiding

   Note

   The word works both as a mass noun and as a count noun. Uncounted, frogging names the trim as a whole (a jacket heavy with gold frogging); counted, froggings means separate sets or pieces of it. Each single looped fastener is a frog, and to frog a coat is to fit it with them, so the noun names the finished result of that verb.

2. 2
   verbcountable or uncountable

   Present participle and gerund of frog.

   After noticing the error, he began frogging the entire sleeve.

   Frogging the whole project felt better than living with the mistake.

   Note

   The -ing form doubles the final g, as short verbs ending in a single vowel and consonant do: frog, frogging. Knitters use it for ripping out rows, either to fix a mistake or to reclaim the yarn. The same form serves the verb's other senses too: hunting frogs, spatchcocking a chicken, sprawling flat. It also serves the trimming sense behind the braided fasteners.

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